Apartment fires in Hartland and St. Stephen displace more than a dozen

HARTLAND, N.B. – Fires in different parts of New Brunswick have displaced more than a dozen people.

Eleven residents were forced out of an apartment building in Windsor, about 15 kilometres east of Hartland.

The Canadian Red Cross says it helped the tenants with emergency lodging, food and clothing.

The agency says the fire on Tuesday evening extensively damaged the four-unit building on Highway 104.

In Saint John, a woman and her three children were displaced from their apartment after a fire overnight in St. Stephen.

The fire on Union Street was reported around 2 a.m. today.